You might be a little stumped when it comes to choosing flowers if you are planning to start a flower garden. There are some choices that can take your garden from okay to simply magnificent even though there is no such thing as a bad choice of flowers. Consider these simple tips when you’re trying to choose which beautiful blooms you want for your garden.

First things first, how much light do you have? If your garden is located in an area that gets direct sunlight for part of the time, and shade for the rest of the time, your flower choices are almost infinite. Best adapted to these half-and-half lighting conditions are the majority of flowers in the world. In case that your garden area is very sunny, then what you need to do is consider planting flowers that not only enjoy sunlight, but can stand up to direct heat. A few good strong sunlight flowers are sunflowers (of course) and daylilies. On the other hand, if your area is more on the shady side, go for lower-light flowers such as irises, tiger lilies, or honeysuckle. These are types of plants that are more tolerant of the cooler temperature in the shade and their photosynthesis process is adapted to smaller amounts of sunlight.

What about soil? If you’re planting in a rocky area, you may have some trouble getting many plants to take root. Of course, black, fine dirt without much rubble is the ideal dirt for flowers. In case you are living in an area where the ground has a sand consistency, then what you can do is look into planting local flowers since those will be the ones most adapted to growing in sand, such as violets.

Here is the fun part. It’s time to think about what types you’d like to grow once you are able to get an idea about what types of flowers you’re able to grow. Try drawing out your garden on a sheet of paper, based on the various heights the plants are expected to reach. Try framing sunflowers with ground covering plants that will flourish in the shade of the taller plants around them. Pay attention to the colors of the blossoms and arrange them in a pleasing manner. Here, you can feel free to plan a garden with a strict outline, featuring only blue and yellow flowers; or let your brain and your garden run wild, with bursts of random color everywhere and use your imagination. You get to decide.

Keep in mind that the first year of a flower garden is only the beginning. Try to plant perennials that will return next season if you truly want to enjoy your garden to the utmost. That will give the plants a year to mature and gain strength, and with a little luck, you’ll be surprised each year with a flourishing flower garden that gets stronger and brighter as time goes by.

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